Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — Modern Marriages. [ARTICLE]

Modern Marriages.

Modern conditions and modern ideas and in particular the lntenser and subtler perceptions of modern life —pross more and more heavily upon a marriage tie whose fashion comes from an earlier and less discriminating time. When the wife was her husband’s subordinate, meeting him simply and uncritically for simple ends, when marriage was a purely domestic relationship, leaving thought and the vivid things of life almost entirely to the unincumbered man, mental and temper*mental incompatibilities, mattered comparatively little. But now the wife and particularly the childless wife, makes unpremeditatedly a relentless demand for a complete association, and the husband exacts unthought of delicacies of understanding and cooperation. People not only think more fully and elaborately about life than they over did before, but marriage obliges us to make that evermore accidented progress a threelegged race of carelessly assorted couples.—H. G. Wells in the Forum.